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Udisks is a service that automatically mounts media when it is connected to the computer. The udisks daemon queries devices via the standard d-bus interface present in all freedesktop.org Desktop Environments. Udisks can also be used manually on the command-line to mount and dismount media.

I'm using a system based on Ubuntu 14.04
There are multiple partitions on /dev/sda. /dev/sda1 is where the system resides, /dev/sda2, ..., /dev/sdaX are NTFS partitions. There are two users admin and ...

In Ubuntu manual regarding AutomaticallyMountPartitions is described that Nautilus is using udisks to mount partitions. But when I type udisks in terminal system tells that I need to install it. So, ...

I have a SeaGate 1.5TB external travel USB HDD that I have movies and things stored on. When I'm done with it, I press "Safely Remove Drive" in Nautilus, and it turns off, then after a second or two, ...

So, we're working to set up an environment here where we have a secure storage setup on our Linux laptops, such that our Linux laptops can only connect a specific USB drive: a Kingston DataTraveler ...

It seems that when in a DE inside X automount works properly. When instead I'm in a virtual terminal (even with X running in another), there is no automount working. When I plug the device nothing is ...

Using Ubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0; on this machine, I have attached external USB hard disk enclosure. To avoid thinking about mount points, I mount a partition from that hard-disk usually with:
sudo ...

When I plugin my NTFS USB disk it gets auto-mounted. That's fine.
But when I want to use files for libvirt/kvm/qemu virtualizaztion they cannot be accessed. Sadly I cannot find the parameter or option ...

I have a ubuntu server (14.04) with a few issues. It's rackmountable, but running the desktop version of Ubuntu. It has 3 HDD bays and 1 internal SSD running the OS. Only one of the HDD bays is being ...

I'm currently testing 14.04 and while there are many things I like about it, the udisks bugs are upsetting. I'm currently running 12.04 on all production systems due to these problems which if I'm not ...

I have ubuntu 12.04 and I need a portable solution (to work on various linux systems) and to be in my user's home directory for mounting a partition after login or after boot.
From what I searched on ...

I have received some research that is on 5. 25" floppies. My mobo supports 5. 25" disks,
and, I have the disk drive. I am not trying to use this media long term, I just want the research data.
Update ...

I am trying to block access to other partitions with different file systems on the same physical hdd (layout: gpt) by preventing any partition mounting without requiring a password.
FSTAB takes care ...

I have tweaked the permissions on /media/username from root:root to username:root [1]. I understand that a user-centric location allows user-centric permissions [2].
But why were the permissions for ...

As of my current installation of Ubuntu 13.10 Unity, when i click on a drive in nautilus it get mounted in /media/username/mountedDrive
i read that nautilus use udisks to do that.
Basically i want to ...

I want to make my own /tmp folder on one of my drives /media/Torrents
How would I go about create a script to run on startup applications? I already have this script where it mounts the drive on boot: ...

I am using Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64.
I have one extra ext4 partition of 90 GB beside my / partition.
I want to ask the user to enter a password whenever he/she tries to mount that extra partition by say
...

I want to stop a USB device from automounting in Ubuntu 13.04. For example, when I connect my iPhone 5 to my desktop I am consistently prompted for what I want to do (whether or not I want to erase ...

I share my computer in a multiseat configuration and would like everyone to mount removable devices with a umask of 0 (ie. readable and writeable by all and sundry). Well, ideally just by group disks ...

I'm running 12.04 on a home server/HTPC, and have several storage drives which spin down using values set in /etc/hdparm.conf.
Sometimes, logging in via ssh causes some or all of the drives to wake ...

The problem: I have an external hard drive and sometimes the driver crashes on startup. It does restart after some time. However my torrent client is also in my startup list and all the data is on the ...

xubuntu allows by default the mounting of an ntfs partition without requesting any kind of authorization.
How can I force it to request authorization (fhe same way that synaptic requires authorization ...

I'm trying to hide a partition form a specific group of users in Ubuntu 12.04.
I have created a new rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-disk.rules with
KERNEL="sda3",ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
...

System > Administration > Disk Utility
What's the difference between "Unmount Volume" and "Safe Removal"? Say you insert a flash drive and open the Disk Utility UI, if you click on "Safe Removal" you ...